www/lynx-current 2.9.3_1 FreeBSD

Console-based web browser (current/development version)

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-09-09
Commit: 701838f026
License: GPLv2
Categories: www
Package size: 1807.7 KiB, 6382.2 KiB installed

Description

lynx is the oldest actively-maintained console-based web browser. It is highly configurable and can act as a front-end for a large number of network services.

Although lynx is fast, small, and very stable, it makes no attempt to handle JavaScript or CSS formatting. Other console browsers like elinks (www/elinks) tackle those languages, with varying degrees of success.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

www/lynx-current

2.9.3_1

DragonFly

www/lynx-current

2.9.2

Install

Binary package:

pkg install lynx-current

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/www/lynx-current/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	lynx-current>0:www/lynx-current

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

2.9.3_1

2.9.0d10

2.9.2_1

2.9.3_1

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

2.9.3_1

n/a

2.9.2_1

2.9.3_1

FreeBSD:15:latest

2.9.3_1

n/a

2.9.2_1

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

2.9.3_1

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

2.9.3_1

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Runtime 1

${LOCALBASE}/etc/mime.types : misc/mime-support

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 12

Run dependencies 5

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: www_lynx

Option

Default

Description

DOCS

off

Build and/or install documentation

GNUTLS

off

SSL/TLS support via GnuTLS

IDN

International Domain Names support

NLS

off

Native Language Support

OPENSSL

SSL/TLS support via OpenSSL

USES: cpe iconv ncurses shebangfix tar:bzip2
Service scripts: none
Conflicts with: lynx-2.8* ja-lynx

Files

Manual pages 1

lynx(1)

pkg-plist 150

bin/lynx
@sample etc/lynx.cfg.sample
@sample etc/lynx.lss.sample
share/doc/lynx-current/CHANGES
share/doc/lynx-current/COPYHEADER
share/doc/lynx-current/COPYHEADER.asc
share/doc/lynx-current/COPYING
share/doc/lynx-current/COPYING.asc
share/doc/lynx-current/PROBLEMS
share/doc/lynx-current/README
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/CHANGES2.3.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/CHANGES2.4.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/CHANGES2.5.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/CHANGES2.6.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/CHANGES2.7.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/CHANGES2.8.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/CRAWL.announce.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/FM.announce.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/IBMPC-charsets.announce.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/OS-390.announce.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.TRST
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.chartrans
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.cookies
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.defines
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.jp
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.metrics
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.options
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.release
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.rootcerts
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.ssl
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/README.sslcerts
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/SOCKETSHR.announce.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/TCPWARE.announce.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/VMSWAIS.announce.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/djgpp.key
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/pdcurses.key
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/slang.key
share/doc/lynx-current/docs/win-386.announce.gz
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/blue-background.lss
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/bright-blue.lss
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/cernrules.txt
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/home.htm
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/installdirs.html
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/jumps.htm
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/jumpsUnix.html
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/jumpsVMS.html
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/keepviewer
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/lynx-demo.cfg
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/lynx-keymaps
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/lynx.bat
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/lynx.com
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/lynx.ico
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/lynx.lss
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/lynx_bookmarks.htm
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/lynxdump
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/mailcap
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/mailto-form.pl
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/mhtml-tool
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/midnight.lss
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/mild-colors.lss
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/mime.types
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/oldlynx
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/oldlynx.bat
share/doc/lynx-current/samples/opaque.lss
share/doc/lynx-current/test/ALT88592.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/ISO_LATIN1_test.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/README.txt
share/doc/lynx-current/test/TestComment.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/X
share/doc/lynx-current/test/bad-html.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/c1.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/circle.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/cp-1252.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/cp-1252a.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/formaction.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/formaction2.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/image.jpg
share/doc/lynx-current/test/idna-tr46.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/iso-8859-1.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/iso-8859-1a.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/iso-8859-2.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/iso-8859-2a.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/koi8-r.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/named-entities.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/nobody
share/doc/lynx-current/test/quickbrown.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/raw8bit.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/sgml.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/spaces.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/special_urls.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/square.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/tabtest.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/tags.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/test-styles.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/triangle.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/unicode.html
share/doc/lynx-current/test/utf-8-demo.html
share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo

The first 100 are listed.

distinfo 1

File

Size

SHA256

lynx2.9.3.tar.bz2

2.852278e+06

174b7f2866a60f3247ba75f5c7dbb10b124aede4a1359312de15f3bfebd2050f

Master sites 2

https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/
https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/

Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-09

701838f026

Adam Weinberger

www/lynx-current: Better SSL OPTIONS

The GNUTLS OPTION was being sneaky--if you disabled it, it enabled OpenSSL support instead. That's probably what most people wanted it to do anyway, but that wasn't the best way to do it. Instead, add a new radio group with OPENSSL and GNUTLS options. It's also possible to disable both and build without TLS/https support now.